>> Both methods do the same thing at my machine,
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> They should not when the data is actually made of Strings.
I copied from the e-mail, foolishly thinking the list was in usable InputForm.
Bobby
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:49:43 -0400 (EDT), Peltio <peltio at twilight.zone> wrote:
> "DrBob" wrote
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>> Both methods do the same thing at my machine,
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> They should not when the data is actually made of Strings.
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> sss={{"ttcttgcctttgcgg","121"},...}
> and not symbols and integers as in
> sss={{ttcttgcctttgcgg,121},...}
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>> and there's also a third method that may do better: [snip]
>> Reverse /@ Sort[Reverse /@ sss]
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> I had already tried that one but it was slower than
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> Transpose@Reverse@Transpose@Sort@Transpose@Reverse@Transpose[
> sss]
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> Mapping Reverse on every row of a long list is more time consuming than
> tranposing the matrix and swapping its *two* long rows.
> This is the side effect of working with an interpreted language, I guess.
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> cheers,
> Peltio
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